Applying an extranumerary interdimensional eye to the complex, adaptive yet strategic dynamics of climate change.
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some like it hot
Influence is the capacity of a communicative form to alter the probability distribution of future communication.
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pathological homeostasis
A political system that learns to survive and self-validate through conflict will eventually treat peace as the threat; dependency on conflict becomes intractable.
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independence day
Freedom is easy to celebrate in theory and much harder to preserve in practice.
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my neurological double-tap
Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.
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stasis, stasi, status, state
A country does not collapse when it disagrees; it collapses when disagreement becomes the structure that holds it together.
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conflict, continuity, complexity
Power that cannot justify itself through competence often turns to conflict as proof of necessity.
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not cybernetics
Dissimulation.
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optimise this
We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.
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knot clever: machine learning
The road to hell is paved with greedy algorithms.
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à plus tard
Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.
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systems thinking
A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.
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